Health & Safety Training day Sponsored by the Children’s Resource Center

March 14, 2009 the Children’s Resource Center invited 25 Latino parents and Spanish speaking child care providers to a Health and Safety training for parents and their children with the support of various Catawba County agencies.

Because of this special day The Children’s Resource Center was able to provide parents training in:  Infant-Child CPR, First Aid, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Car Seat Safety & Smoke Alarm information. Lunch and light snacks were provided for parents with donations from Fuddruckers Restaurant and Geppeto’s of Newton.

Activities were provided for children from local qualified early child hood educators and the Hickory Fire Department.  Children learned how firefighters with the Hickory and Newton Fire Departments help save lives and were visited by “Pluggie– the fire hydrant”. Thanks to Fire Educators Mabelisse Hernandez and Thomas Raper the children learned safety procedures when preventing and reacting to the threat of a fire. .

Special thanks to the American Red Cross for providing First Aid and CPR training in Spanish.

For more information, contact The Children’s Resource Center at 828-695-6565.